Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes

Jewish extremism and Islamic fanaticism fed each other.

The borders of Islam are bloody.

In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to see a son of ISIS, or even a grandson of ISIS, developing in the years to come.

Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

I'm proud of what I've done in Jordan, but the region itself is sitting on a time bomb.

We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of instability now stretches from Algeria to Pakistan.

Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

The Middle East is undoubtedly in for a rocky time. In Palestine we have a situation which is badly fouled up by the past mistakes of many people, including ourselves. These probably cannot be settled without great unpleasantness, including violence.

This Middle East thing is maddening.

In the Middle East, Iraq, Sudan, the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world, religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God.

Failed states have become breeding grounds for conflict.

The Middle East is a region where extremists go all the way and moderates just go away.

The so called “Arab Spring” … is really a situation which is creating more threats so far than positive incentives.

Terrorism often finds a home in states mired in civil war …

One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.

There is a real need to construct a different Middle East. The Middle East must change because the world has changed. And instead of oppositional armies that are fighting usually one against another, now we have a net of terrorists that are trying to destroy everything. They are not two; they are hundreds.

I'm not that worried about war. Insecurity is the word I would use - insecurity and tension and conflict. I thought civilized people had abandoned wars. Sometimes people don't make rational decisions.

I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.

People think that the Middle East is very complex but I have an analogy that sums it up quite well. If you imagine that Palestine is a big cake, well... that cake is being punched to pieces by a very angry Jew.

I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East.